• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 days ago

    Is it really “cyberbullying” against Musk if Musk first negatively affected the lives and livelihoods of, say, millions of people?

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      Yes. And it is still harmful. But there is no good solution here. He should be able to play a mostly single player game in some isolation from the public. (I.e. put DND on and be “fine” but hated, possibly the game should have made that easier for streamers being flooded by spam.)

      That being said the harm being done in America is incredibly impactful and must be stopped at high cost.

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        He could have played alone. HE DECIDED to steam himself publicly, after spending the last two months actively trying to destroy those people’s futures. All for personal gain. He does not deserve to know a moment of peace whenever he chooses to show his face publicly after what he’s done.

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    It’s the Find Out stage that follows his Fuck Around rather than any sort of him being bullied.

    When extremely wealthy and powerful people knowingly ruining the lives of tens, hundreds of thousands or even millions, them getting some well deserved opprobrium from everybody else, that’s Fair Consequences, not bullying.

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      I mean, I wouldn’t call it fair. They said some really nasty things but I think for it to be fair, we would have to get a guillotine involved.

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      I doubt if he knows just how much well-deserved hatred he has accumulated. It’s like a thunderstorm and he’s on a high hill licking a flagpole. That’s going to be a lot more extreme than some shit talk in a gamer forum.

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    Reminder: He died to a Tutorial Boss in a game he tried to use a boosted account in to fake being one of the top players only for the devs to go “Wait, aren’t you a top Diablo IV player? Either you have the time management skills of a God and are the top player in multiple games, or you’re bullshitting… and guess what’s the winning one.”

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      It’s such a weird thing to do. He’s in his fifties. He has a bunch of companies and a bunch of kids. If he was a top ranked POE player would you respect him more or would ypu respect him less because he was shirking his duties to work and family to crush mobs?

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    Transcript:

    Elon Musk rage quit a livestream of the video game Path of Exile 2 on Saturday night after repeatedly dying while also being ruthlessly cyberbullied in the chat.

    Path of Exile 2 is one of Musk’s favorite games—so much so that he once claimed to be one of the world’s top players in an attempt to boost his gamer cred, before later backtracking and admitting that he had been secretly paying people to level up his account to make him appear more talented at it than he was.

    Nevertheless, while attempting to show off Starlink’s in-flight WiFi capabilities while onboard his private jet over the weekend, Musk streamed himself playing some PoE2 on the hardest difficulty, which was broadcast live on X.

    The DOGE chief was, predictably, terrible at the game, but that was the least of his problems—Less than five minutes into the stream, a player logged on and asked Musk if he could “please jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack.” It only got worse from there.

    For the next hour and a half, Musk sat in stony-faced silence and blasted techno music while dozens of users with names such as ELON_IS_A_PEEDOPHILE and ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC repeatedly spammed the chat to tell him “YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND YOU WILL DIE ALONE” and “YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY.”

    Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers YouTube “Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon,” said an account pretending to be the conservative influencer currently locked in a custody battle with Musk over their five-month-old child, while another said his estranged daughter Vivian “was right” about him being terrible at video games.

    Some streamers attempted to help Musk out by trying to show him how to mute the chat function, while others encouraged people to “Buy TSLA” and thanked him for his work with Starlink and DOGE, but they were drowned out by a cavalcade of abuse from gamers relished the opportunity to give the billionaire a piece of their mind.

    Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers YouTube “There’s a lot of r-----s in the chat,” said Musk at one point, using the r-word slur while a user named HC_John_Wick repeatedly spammed “ELON HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO LOOK THIS DUMB AND UGLY WHY IS UR TESLA COMPANY FALLING APART AHAAHAAHAAH! WHAT HAPPENED BUDDY?”

    But aside from muting a couple of the loudest trolls after almost an hour of sustained abuse, Musk did little to stop the army of trolls from relentlessly mocking him.

    Eventually, he vanished when his WiFi connection abruptly cut out and ended the stream, which he later deleted from X but was swiftly reuploaded onto YouTube.

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      For the next hour and a half, Musk sat in stony-faced silence and blasted techno music while dozens of users with names such as ELON_IS_A_PEEDOPHILE and ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC repeatedly spammed the chat […]

      Oh my god, Musk is J.P. from Grandma’s Boy. I can’t un-see it now.

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      That video is really funny and sad. He looks like he’s about to cry. I’m not sure he was reading at a certain point because people were trying to help him. He deserves all of the hate.

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        It is sad, because so obvious that he wants to accepted, and liked.

        All he’d have to do is help poor people. Kid’s school lunches, scholarships, playgrounds, libraries, low cost subsidized housing, cheap pharmaceuticals, you name it.

        But no, “Empathy is Weakness,” Nazi salutes, fucking up grandma’s Social Security, destroying the Dept. of Education, putting thousands of government workers out of jobs.

        Way to go, psychopath.

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      This is hilarious mainly because all he had to do was type /DND and he could have stopped all of this, which anyone who had actually played the game for any substantial amount would know, but of course he doesn’t, because he just paid people to play it for him.

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      Of course, he used the r slur. Literally beyond pathetic. The only way to lash out he had was to throw a slur out there. It did nothing to detract from how utterly embarrassing the entire thing was.

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      Less than five minutes into the stream, a player logged on and asked Musk if he could “please jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack.”

      Not all heroes wear capes. Someone buy them a fucking drink, I’m going to be laughing about that alone for years.

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        21 days ago

        Even better: Starlink performed just fine, but he kept getting killed by a tutorial boss and getting bullied so he rage quit and blamed it on Starlink.

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          Which is hilarious because in order to avoid just admitting he’s not good at a game, he shit on his own company lol

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    How long until he goes on the news crying about them being paid puppets? Or maybe his bitch mom will have to go on tv try demand people stop making fun of her little cupcake again.

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    It astounds me that a middle aged man, who can literally afford anything, do anything, go anywhere, is so fragile emotionally that he craves adulation from absolute strangers. Particularly teenage boys, which emotionally, he is also.

    It would be pitiable if we wasn’t such a psychopath.

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      21 days ago

      As a wise man recently said,

      They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.

      Money can buy everything but it can’t buy respect. Nobody respects Musk getting to level 90+ in SSF HC PoE2 because he just bought his way there. Nobody respects him on Twitter, because he bought his way there. Nobody respects Tesla, because (say it with me kids) he bought his way there.

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        Money can absolutely buy respect the problem is fuckwad is too stupid to know how, for example he could bankroll building functional replicas of historic vehicles and weapons for museums which would earn him some respect. That’s assuming he doesn’t want to help the poor and build public libraries like Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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          You’re both right - spending tons of money just to build influence does not buy you respect, but investing your money in something that contributes to the greater good does. Unfortunately for Elon, this requires good intentions and substantial effort, neither of which he possesses. So, he bought an epic gamer account to brainwash the most vulnerable members of society into believing he’s some kind of 22nd century technogenius! Seriously, what the fuck is actually wrong with this man???

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            Thing is, he could still hire people who do know how to do that - he just doesn’t see the point. Like the person who refuses to hire an electrician instead of just doing it himself, he keeps getting it wrong and then being shocked.

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              He had one, but he fired her and looks to be too stubborn and sure of his own competence to hire another one (or maybe too proud to admit that she was right and useful after firing her for petty reasons).

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      What gets me is that he has the means to become the most beloved man in history pretty much on a whim. I can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of good he could do by dumping half his fortune into good causes, which would still leave him with orders of magnitude more money than he’d need to buy/do whatever the fuck he wants with.

      The attention he craves is right there. But he chooses instead to be a villain. Why?? Be a fucking superhero - even if it’s for completely selfish reasons, humanity won’t give shit.

      I don’t get it.

      If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

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        He had that aura when he was building Tesla and solar city and the gigafactory. Become a billionaire and fight climate change? Go Elon.

        Go to Mars? Bit of a stretch goal, but helping Nasa and science is good. Go Elon.

        Save kids trapped underground? Go Elon.

        What? Called him a pedophile? Maybe he has some inside knowledge. Anyway.

        Shout about doge coin? Bit weird. Ok he’s just having fun.

        Sell a consumer grade flamethrower? What?

        Pay 44bn for Twitter? What? Where’s the value?

        And down and down.

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          He had that aura when he was building Tesla

          Tesla was a going concern (with excellent product quality) when Musk bought it. The product roadmap was already there. The only big things Musk has influenced are underfunding quality during scale-up and rolling out the Dumpsterwagen. Well, that and lying about self-driving.

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            I was addressing the downward trajectory of his outside perception, not his actual skills.

            Musk is willing to risk his capital, and does seem to be able to identify talented engineers and individuals. He used to be able to attract them too.

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        Look at Bill Gates. He’s a complete asshole and was widely hated until he stepped down from Microsoft. But, spend just a small fraction of his fortune on charity, much of it self-serving, and he’s now he’s widely loved.

        If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

        The thing is, you don’t become a billionaire if you have empathy. If you’re a normal kind of person who likes helping other people, you start giving away your money long before you hit $1B.

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          In a functioning society, we wouldn’t have to rely on the “philanthropy” of rich people to fund good causes. It should not be possible for one person to hoard so much wealth that they get to personally decide which issues get ignored.

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        From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what, but he got involved to make those investigations go away. Then he got addicted to being in charge after buying The Presidency.

        Because, as we all know, narcissists love being in charge, and adulation.

        And why is he being an asshole, when he could be generous and beneficent, and get the adulation he craves? Because he thinks he’s superior, and like he said, empathy is weakness, He is unable to understand, or feel empathy.

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          From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what

          I’ll give you a hint. It starts with “e” and rhymes with “Epstein didn’t kill himself”…

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          In comparison to his wealth, that’s so small time that it’s not even worth mentioning.

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            Yeah, because doing anything altruistic is “virtue signaling.” No one really cares about anyone but themselves. How do I know? Because I don’t.

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          Celebrities are just rich people sportsy, artistic, sympathic, entertaining or sexualized looking enough to get public attention

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      And let’s be real, it’s ok to be emotional and want attention. That’s human.

      But I’m sure this can be done, and is probably easier to accomplish by not being a nazi, which is the real issue here.

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        Yes. Thanks.

        Humans are pack animals. We’re not supposed to be alone. When we are, bad things happen, mentally. Which is on display with Musk.

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        You’ve probably seen people with mommy and daddy issues before, but this is the first time we’ve ever witnessed a billionaire with severe mommy and daddy issues.

        Dude wants attention and doesn’t care how he gets it. Helps a lot to be a Nazi too.

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          this is the first time we’ve ever witnessed a billionaire with severe mommy and daddy issues

          Trump’s one of those too. His mother was a hyper-reserved Wee Free ball of congealed repression, and his father was a mob-connected slumlord bully. None of the kids got affection. Some internalized it, some became raving assholes like Trump.

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      Right? I wouldn’t be trying to pretend to be King Shit in a game I don’t even know how to play, I’d make my own game with black jack and hookers, hookers who are voiced by Jack Black. That’s right I’m casting a cisman in the role of a sexy cisfemale character and there’s not even a joke or a bit to it. The character is not implied to be trans and there’s not even a transphobic quip about it, I just got Jack Black to voice a woman because I could, because I’ve got fuck you money… And if the ESRB or Gabe Newell didn’t like it, I’d start an alternative to Steam that actually works.

      It seems such vivid Imagination is wasted on those who cannot make their dreams into reality…

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    I wonder if he’s ever actually enjoyed and been sincerely enthusiastic about video games, or he’s just playing them in a pathetic attempt to come off as cool and attractive to younger generations.

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        Apparently, he got his ass kicked in High School for bullying a classmate whose father committed suicide.

        I don’t think he got his ass kicked enough.

        On the same tangent, Alex Jones severely injured a classmate, brain damage injury, when he sucker punched him, knocked him out, then literally pile-drove him Wrasslin’ style. Well, after, that guy’s friends invited Jones to a party, and set up him 80’s style to get his ass beat. And they beat the shit out of him. So bad, that Jones’ dentist father wrote an article for the local paper about it, and the family left town. Because those guys would have probably killed Jones, eventually.

        Jones, and Musk, and many other grifters and predators like them, are psychopaths. They are unable to feel empathy. They think it’s stupid, and weak, and interferes with their goals and desires.

        Evil, true evil, is the lack of empathy. These people are evil.

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          On the same tangent, Alex Jones severely injured a classmate, brain damage injury, when he sucker punched him, knocked him out, then literally pile-drove him Wrasslin’ style. Well, after, that guy’s friends invited Jones to a party, and set up him 80’s style to get his ass beat. And they beat the shit out of him. So bad, that Jones’ dentist father wrote an article for the local paper about it, and the family left town. Because those guys would have probably killed Jones, eventually.

          Alex regularly relieves that sucker punch and pile drive on air. “I’m going to (nonviolently, lovingly) slam the globalists faces into the curb.” The reason he and his family left town in his narrative was because he knew too much about the police and some kind of sex ring.

          It is disturbing how often he vividly describes that attack though. There’s something quasi sexual to the violence for him.

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    Make comedy legal again.Well Elmo that was fucking hilarious.